2 For if someone comes into your meeting wearing a gold ring and dressed in fine clothes, and a poor person dressed in filthy clothes also comes in, 3 if you look with favor on the one wearing the fine clothes and say, “Sit here in a good place,” and yet you say to the poor person, “Stand over there,” or “Sit here on the floor by my footstool,” 4 haven’t you made distinctions among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts? (James 2:2-4 CSB)

The world is full of a variety of people. Some rich, some poor, some beautiful by worldly standard and some deemed not so.

But by who’s standards are we looking upon these people?

Maybe we feel that we are not looked upon as favorably as others due to some physical appearance or our status. But does that make any of us less worthy? Less valuable?

Have we then become judges with evil thoughts?

Or is our sin one of omission. Of not judging but simply not doing for another because they do not fit the right pattern. Thus, we simply overlook them.

This is not what God wants us to be about. No, when we are about His business all are worthy of our compassion and our attention. A daunting task? No, because God will not give us more than we can handle.